Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #98

[BetteDavisEyes]

NBC/Today video report: COVID-19 protocols for schoolchildren debated as case numbers trend upward (xfinity.com)

 

[nhmemorymaker]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/mod...variant-breakthrough-odds-rise-with-time.html

Moderna’s vaccine may be best against Delta

The mRNA vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech may be less effective than Moderna’s against the delta variant of the coronavirus, according to two reports posted on medRxiv on Sunday ahead of peer review.

In a study of more than 50,000 patients in the Mayo Clinic Health System, researchers found the effectiveness of Moderna’s vaccine against infection had dropped to 76% in July - when the delta variant was predominant - from 86% in early 2021.

Over the same period, the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine had fallen to 42% from 76%, researchers said.

While both vaccines remain effective at preventing Covid hospitalization, a Moderna booster shot may be necessary soon for anyone who got the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines earlier this year, said Dr. Venky Soundararajan of Massachusetts data analytics company nference, who led the Mayo study.
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This is data that I have been really waiting for. Because I keep asking, when i find out someone did get covid after vaccination....and when I could get the info, it was always Pfizer.

 

[MimosaMornings]

COVID-19 hospitalizations in NC continue to mount; almost 5,000 new cases reported — News & Observer

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I have long covid and my heart is with the children who have it or even covid. It is miserable.

I was one of the first covid cases in my area and have no idea where I contracted it. I didn't go to the doctor right away and had to sleep in my easy chair because I couldn't breathe well enough lying down. After 2 days of not being able to breathe well enough I finally called an ambulance. I can't begin to tell you how great it was to have oxygen in the ambulance and at the hospital. I live alone and knew I had to have some help.

I was one of the lucky ones in that I didn't have to have a ventilator but did have oxygen and the breathing exercises.

I'd asked my doctor if I should have the vaccine and he assured me I should because they did not know how long the antibodies from having had covid would last. I did have both shots. First one in March and the second one in April.

My problem is that I just can't seem to get back to normal. My symptoms come and go. I first went to my doctor in Jan. after already having been sicker than I have ever been. Serology testing showed I had antibodies and had covid recently prior to the testing.

My sense of taste and smell are still gone. I get light headed at times but wouldn't call it being dizzy. I stay fatigued most of the time and still can't walk even a block. I've had to have someone do the heavy cleaning for me.

I did not have a life threatening case of covid but it was serious enough and with lasting repercussions. To not get the vaccinations and risk your life is just crazy. I understand we can still get covid again or it's variants. I urge everyone to be very, very careful. I was lucky but you might not be.

Thank you so much for sharing. You just make it so crystal clear what long covid is.

I also have a friend who is going through this. She got Covid before vaccines; has no idea where she got it; is relatively young (40s) and has a similar list as yours.... She just cannot get her energy back up at all, and, quite frankly, is having difficulty working and raising her two kids....

I personally feel that long covid is so understated.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Is this the same Florida that has more cases than at any other time during the entire pandemic? I don’t know much about DeSantis but he sounds deluded and dangerous.

Honestly...he is spending so much time campaigning for his future.... attacking Fauci, Biden, Data Scientists, and his school administrators every day.

Every day he says he is doing this for the parents..... he is teaching the parents NOTHING..

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Savannah GA:
My nephew's K-12 private school started school August 4. He didn't start then, as everyone in his unvaccinated family tested positive the day before. The school closed yesterday because too many teachers have COVID.

My mother's assisted living facility has COVID positive residents, right now. My mother doesn't know if they are vaccinated, but she is. A resident was sent to the hospital for something unrelated last Wednesday and tested positive, but the facility did not begin quarantining close contacts until yesterday because they only had confirmation from the spouse and not the hospital.

Northwest Florida:
School started today. It's terrifying. Everybody knows that Florida is in bad shape, but since early June, it's impossible to find up-to-date daily numbers on new cases and deaths by county, so we aren't really sure just how bad it is here, as opposed to larger cities. My immediate family is vaccinated but my grandchildren are not.

It is painful. I hear parents talking to each other at the vegetable stand, at the gas station, grocery store. The overwhelming feeling is just an absolute fear of the unknown. A number of parents I know, went back to remote learning, quite suddenly this month. No real chance to plan.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

As adults, we are now so used to being in this nationwide feud that has been building for years... and having to simply "live" with the political ramifications of covid, covid, covid.

But the children? We are allowing this hate and misunderstanding to become a permanent part of kids growing up in America .........

We could have helped make masks the fashion statement for the ages for our kids.

But no, we are nurturing a child without a mask to hate one with a mask and vice versa..

 

[margarita25]

 

[HongKongPhooey]

I have long covid and my heart is with the children who have it or even covid. It is miserable.

I was one of the first covid cases in my area and have no idea where I contracted it. I didn't go to the doctor right away and had to sleep in my easy chair because I couldn't breathe well enough lying down. After 2 days of not being able to breathe well enough I finally called an ambulance. I can't begin to tell you how great it was to have oxygen in the ambulance and at the hospital. I live alone and knew I had to have some help.

I was one of the lucky ones in that I didn't have to have a ventilator but did have oxygen and the breathing exercises.

I'd asked my doctor if I should have the vaccine and he assured me I should because they did not know how long the antibodies from having had covid would last. I did have both shots. First one in March and the second one in April.

My problem is that I just can't seem to get back to normal. My symptoms come and go. I first went to my doctor in Jan. after already having been sicker than I have ever been. Serology testing showed I had antibodies and had covid recently prior to the testing.

My sense of taste and smell are still gone. I get light headed at times but wouldn't call it being dizzy. I stay fatigued most of the time and still can't walk even a block. I've had to have someone do the heavy cleaning for me.

I did not have a life threatening case of covid but it was serious enough and with lasting repercussions. To not get the vaccinations and risk your life is just crazy. I understand we can still get covid again or it's variants. I urge everyone to be very, very careful. I was lucky but you might not be.

I'm so sorry to hear this and I feel your frustration. I am under my local Long Covid clinic now here in the UK. So far I have had some tests - blood tests for everything (even hiv), 24 hour ECG, an ultrasound to rule out DVT for a twingey pain in my calf, two nights oxygen and heart monitoring to check for sleep apnea. Coming up I have a respiratory physiologist appointment next month and I'm waiting for the echocardiogram date. Once all the results are back, I'll have another appointment with the clinic doctors.

If you are able to get referred, I recommend it. I'm not expecting miracles but it has helped my mental frame of mind to hear a medical person say yes, we do think you have this thing, and to have a good thorough check over. It is hugely frustrating to me when people say things like its a state of mind, you need more exercise... No, its basically like having a mild version of covid every week for almost a year and a half!

While the tests are ongoing, the advice they gave me is similar to the advice they give people with CFS and ME. I've since realised it's called "pacing". So you have to build in periods of complete rest after any activity which they include work (of course), conversations, phone calls, anything physical. I find this hard as I work full time although thankfully from home mostly, but I am really trying. They said we are wearing our battery out day by day, so by Friday we have nothing left and spend the weekend recharging ready for Monday. We have to try not to run the battery low every day.

Sorry folks for the long me-me post but I hope it may help LaLaw and anyone else who is struggling long term effects.

 

[mickey2942]

Anti-vax nurse gave 8,600 people saline, not COVID vaccine: police

What the heck?!

And, in Montana, we had a child die from Covid.

Child dies of COVID-19 in Missoula County, first county death aged 19 or under

I can't imagine how it would feel to try to figure out sending kids to school this year. It is not surprising that so many women have left the workforce in the last year.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

FDA poised to OK 3rd vaccine dose for immunocompromised people

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to amend the emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer and the Moderna Covid-19 vaccines Thursday to allow people with compromised immune systems to get a third dose, according to two sources familiar with the plans.

The move would come after a panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met in July and urged action on extra doses for immunocompromised adults.

FDA poised to OK third vaccine dose for immunocompromised people

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I'm so sorry to hear this and I feel your frustration. I am under my local Long Covid clinic now here in the UK. So far I have had some tests - blood tests for everything (even hiv), 24 hour ECG, an ultrasound to rule out DVT for a twingey pain in my calf, two nights oxygen and heart monitoring to check for sleep apnea. Coming up I have a respiratory physiologist appointment next month and I'm waiting for the echocardiogram date. Once all the results are back, I'll have another appointment with the clinic doctors.

If you are able to get referred, I recommend it. I'm not expecting miracles but it has helped my mental frame of mind to hear a medical person say yes, we do think you have this thing, and to have a good thorough check over. It is hugely frustrating to me when people say things like its a state of mind, you need more exercise... No, its basically like having a mild version of covid every week for almost a year and a half!

While the tests are ongoing, the advice they gave me is similar to the advice they give people with CFS and ME. I've since realised it's called "pacing". So you have to build in periods of complete rest after any activity which they include work (of course), conversations, phone calls, anything physical. I find this hard as I work full time although thankfully from home mostly, but I am really trying. They said we are wearing our battery out day by day, so by Friday we have nothing left and spend the weekend recharging ready for Monday. We have to try not to run the battery low every day.

Sorry folks for the long me-me post but I hope it may help LaLaw and anyone else who is struggling long term effects.

Wow, Phoey...thank you so much for the details of what you are going through...and I so so agree with your message---get every test possible. As I said in an earlier post....I really think long-covid is understated, and strong wills MUST force the medical community to address it vigorously. It is just the right thing to do.

I remember...way back...when we were so worried about you, because we had not heard from you..... thank you so much for "sticking with us" to tell it like it is..............

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Anti-vax nurse gave 8,600 people saline, not COVID vaccine: police

What the heck?!

And, in Montana, we had a child die from Covid.

Child dies of COVID-19 in Missoula County, first county death aged 19 or under

I can't imagine how it would feel to try to figure out sending kids to school this year. It is not surprising that so many women have left the workforce in the last year.

You sure got that right........... that last sentence.

 

[mickey2942]

You sure got that right........... that last sentence.

I actually looked up the statistics on this, because in my office, every single working Mother has quit this year. Added to the people who retired, and those who state they can't work due to immunity issues...I know places that are literally shutting down, because there isn't enough staff.

https://time.com/nextadvisor/in-the-news/women-in-the-workplace/

 

[weepingangel]

FDA Expected To Approve Booster For Those Who Are Immunocompromised - News & Guts Media

Those with compromised immune systems are expected to be eligible for a third COVID vaccine as early as Friday. NBC News says this would apply to those who received Pfizer and Moderna vaccines

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Wow, Phoey...thank you so much for the details of what you are going through...and I so so agree with your message---get every test possible. As I said in an earlier post....I really think long-covid is understated, and strong wills MUST force the medical community to address it vigorously. It is just the right thing to do.

I remember...way back...when we were so worried about you, because we had not heard from you..... thank you so much for "sticking with us" to tell it like it is..............

Hey.. thanks xX

 

[SoCalDavidS]

Perhaps if FL was able to report it's Covid #'s the way all of the other states do, there wouldn't be confusion when the CDC publishes official figures. Yeah, I'm sure it's all on the up and up. In case you missed it, CDC came out with some figures for FL, since FL provided them some #'s that made no sense, and then FL complained about how the CDC #'s were off, and the CDC had to go back and adjust them, splitting up the large # between a couple of days.

Basically FL complained, "You said we had 28,000 New Cases in 1 day, and that's just plain wrong. It was only 20,000 Cases on 1 day, and 8,000 on another. How dare you accuse us of having a lot of cases."

It's almost 8:00 PM EST, and Still no FL totals for today on Worldometers. And there were NONE yesterday either.

They're running figures that are 2-3 times as large as the next highest # states, and they have everything under control, according to their "governor." So why can't we track everything on a daily basis, like every other large state?

Nothing to see here, move along.

Oh, and if you look at Deaths Per Capita, FL just moved up a spot to 25th overall, leapfrogging TX. They're right on the heels of a few more states, and at their current rate, they'll likely jump over some more before they're done.

United States COVID: 37,013,021 Cases and 635,538 Deaths - Worldometer

 

[weepingangel]

12 COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths in outbreak at Nissan of Durango

More at link
DURANGO, Colo. (KDVR) — At least 12 people have tested positive for COVID-19 at Nissan of Durango, including three people who died.

San Juan Basin Public Health said a fourth person died after contracting COVID-19, but the case did not meet the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s case definition to be added to the outbreak list.

All four people who died were unvaccinated and ranged in age from 40s to 60s.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

All four people who died were unvaccinated and ranged in age from 40s to 60s.

When are people going to learn? That’s a seriously high case:death ratio.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Just had a message from a local pharmacy, who must be one of those now able to give vaccinations.
They're taking bookings but I already had my vaccinations. It's good that they're reaching out to their customers.

I think it's a good idea to have a central walk in one, the only two places here are quite a hike, you would need transport to get there and one is only for people in cars.
This pharmacy is in the middle of town and believe it or not there are many people here who live in town who don't have a car.

It is different if you live out of town, even a short distance you would have to have a car being mainly a rural area.